Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1917 — Irish Wit. [ARTICLE]

Irish Wit.

The pat answer which has been defined as “an Irish come-back” is more typical of Irish wit than the bull. Bulls which are common to the humor of all lands usually indicate slow comprehension or lax thinking. But the Irish bull Is often an instance of thought overleaping itself—a flash "of perspicacity. When a shrewd doctor say* that “warm stockings are the best chest protectors," we recognize a forcible and picturesque statement; when Napoleon declared that “most j

people dig their graves ■with their teeth,” we see a pointed truth. But when a Kerry doctor remarks dryly that “people are dying this winter that never died before,” we see a merry Irish “bull.” —Catholic Citizen.